The Big Picture

.A heads up: I’ll be appearing on Fox today: Your World with Neil Cavuto @ 4:20pm EST. The topics include the increased...

Producer Prices in September soared "by the largest amount in more than 15 years." While the Sunshine squad blamed...

In 1961, when this terrific Mose Allison disc first came out, Gasoline was 19 cents a gallon and Ford was doing well as an automaker. 44...

Similar to Twain’s observation, reports of inflation’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Despite tales to the contrary, it is...

Before 1983, CPI measured housing inflation by looking at what it cost to own a home (house prices, mortgage, property taxes). After 83,...

Adjust this! We visited the issue of BLS "Owners Equivalent Rent" in CPI back in May (and several times since). But we...

I’ve mentioned the magazine cover indicator several times in the past. I find its utility to be greater when discussing major...

Good morning, and welcome to the monkey house. Now that the deluge has stopped, we can put away our umbrellas and turn to the key topics...

Back in 2002, I addressed the issue of limiting the downside of disaster stock holdings (see Risk Management of "Fiasco"...

Barron’s Alan Abelson shares my disdain for ginned up CPI data: When it comes to the so-called professional response to economic...